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Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco to reposition Windows 11 around native apps, Windows on Arm, local AI development, and agent-driven hardware, while announcing developer tools and devices meant to make that strategy practical. The pitch was not merely that Windows will get more AI...

Asustor used Computex 2026 in Taipei to show a Ryzen-powered Flashstor 6 Gen 3 all-flash NAS, refreshed Lockerstor V2 hybrid systems, and a local “agentic AI” platform called Asustor Claw for automating storage tasks on the NAS itself. The hardware story is simple enough: more flash, faster...

Minisforum’s M2 Pro mini-PC was previewed at CES 2026 as a palm-sized Panther Lake system with Intel Core Ultra X9 388H silicon and Arc B390 graphics, but as of June 7, 2026, the machine still has no firm retail ship date beyond an expected Q3 2026 window. That delay matters because the cheaper...

Minisforum announced the M2 Pro and MS-03 mini PCs in early June 2026, positioning both systems around Intel’s Panther Lake platform, local AI acceleration, and unusually dense desktop-class I/O for machines small enough to disappear behind a monitor. The pitch is not merely “faster mini PC.” It...

Nvidia and Microsoft are preparing RTX Spark Windows PCs, announced around Computex and Build 2026, to run personal AI agents locally with a Grace Blackwell-derived superchip, up to 128GB of unified memory, and new Windows security plumbing for agent access. The pitch is not merely a faster AI...

Microsoft Build 2026 begins June 2 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, with Satya Nadella opening a developer conference that will be streamed online and centered on Windows 11, AI agents, and NVIDIA’s new RTX Spark platform for Windows on Arm PCs. The viewing instructions are the least...

Microsoft has unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact Windows 11 developer mini PC built around Nvidia’s RTX Spark platform, with up to one petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory, and it is expected to go on sale later in 2026. The box matters less because it looks like a...

Microsoft introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box on June 2, 2026 at Build as a compact Windows 11 Pro developer PC powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark silicon, promising up to one petaflop of AI compute and 128GB of unified memory for local AI workloads. The pitch is simple enough to fit on a...

Microsoft introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, positioning the compact Nvidia-powered desktop as a developer workstation for running large AI models, long jobs, and Windows-native tooling locally. The box is not a mainstream Surface PC in the old...

Microsoft used Build 2026 on June 2 in San Francisco to pitch Windows developers a new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, fresh Linux-friendly tooling, and a one-command developer configuration system for Windows 11. The headline is not merely that Microsoft has another small developer PC. It is that...

Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at Build 2026 on June 2 in San Francisco, positioning the compact Surface-branded desktop as a Windows 11 Pro developer workstation for local AI workloads powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark silicon and shipping later this year in the United States...

Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box on June 2, 2026, as a Windows 11 developer workstation for local AI work, pairing NVIDIA’s RTX Spark architecture with up to one petaflop of AI compute, 128 GB of unified memory, and tooling for agents, containers, WSL, CUDA, and Copilot. The...

Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box on June 2, 2026, a compact Windows 11 Pro developer PC for local AI and Arm-native software work, powered by Nvidia’s new RTX Spark platform and due later this year through Microsoft’s online store in the United States. The box matters less as...

Microsoft previewed Windows Subsystem for Linux 3 at Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, promising a reworked Linux-on-Windows architecture with near-native GPU and NPU access for AI workloads running inside WSL environments. The announcement matters less because it gives Windows another...

Microsoft and NVIDIA announced RTX Spark for Windows PCs at Computex 2026, with the Arm-based platform set to arrive this fall in premium laptops and compact desktops from Microsoft Surface, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and later other manufacturers. The announcement is being sold as a turning...

Microsoft is expected to use Build 2026, held June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, to unveil Windows 11 developer updates, local AI tooling, new Microsoft AI models, Copilot consolidation, and GitHub reassurance aimed at developers. The headline is not simply that Microsoft...

Microsoft Build 2026 is scheduled for June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, moving Microsoft’s flagship developer conference away from its recent Seattle pattern and into a smaller, AI-focused format aimed at roughly 2,500 in-person attendees plus a free online audience. That venue...

Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra on May 31, 2026, ahead of Computex in Taipei, positioning the 15-inch Windows 11 machine as its first Surface built around NVIDIA’s new RTX Spark platform with Blackwell graphics, unified memory, CUDA support, and local AI workloads in mind. The...

Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra at Computex 2026 in Taipei, a 15-inch professional Windows laptop built with Nvidia’s new RTX Spark superchip and scheduled to arrive this fall from Microsoft Surface and other PC makers. The machine is being pitched less as another premium notebook...

Nvidia and Microsoft unveiled RTX Spark at Computex 2026 in Taipei as a Windows on Arm platform built around Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU technology, a 20-core Arm CPU, up to 128GB of unified memory, and a claimed 1 petaflop of local AI compute. The announcement matters because Windows on Arm has...